Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Labor and Workplace Standards Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2742
Directs the Bureau of Labor and Industries to create guidance and informational materials to assist employers in complying with the laws regarding reasonable accommodation.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Digest: The Act makes creates new laws with respect to people with disabilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Directs the Bureau of Labor and Industries to create guidance and informational materials to assist employers in complying with the laws regarding reasonable accommodation. Requires the bureau to establish a program to administer and coordinate low-cost or no-cost mediation services for the resolution of disputes concerning reasonable accommodation. Prohibits employers from denying an employee the right to have union representation in discussions concerning reasonable accommodation. Extends prohibition against discrimination in government services, programs and activities, to local governments. Prohibits employers from using minimum physical requirements to screen out persons with disabilities. Requires state contracting agencies and state agencies to include outreach, retention and recruitment of persons with disabilities in carrying out the agencies' affirmative action policies.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
Its course
January 13 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action4 actions on 4 days
In the House of RepresentativesJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days
Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days
Labor and Workplace StandardsJan 17 to Jun 27 · stopped161 days
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.
In the House of Representatives Jan 13 – Jun 27
- Jan 13Introduced
- Jan 17Sent to Labor and Workplace Standards
- Mar 3Heard in Labor and Workplace Standards
- Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 4 actions, as published
- Jan 13First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
- Jan 17Referred to Labor and Workplace Standards with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
- Mar 3Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
- Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives